Campsite aggregator Deyor raises $500,000

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Campsite aggregator Deyor Camps (Deyor Adventures Pvt Ltd) on Wednesday said it has raised $500,000 in its second round of funding from Nitin Passi, Manickam Mahalingam, Udaan Angels and Arkas Industries. 

The funding comes three months after Deyor announced acquisition of a strategic stake in the company by business to business travel portal Travel Boutique Online (TBO).

Deyor Camps was founded by Dheeraj Jain, Chirag Gupta, Aakaar Gandhi and Gautam Yadav. It targets the adventure travel segment.

The company claims to have engaged over 10,000 travellers, across 170 properties in 55 cities so far. By end of 2016, Deyor Camps targets to touch more than 25,000 travellers.

The average ticket size of the camp offered is Rs 1,500 for one person per night.

Alternate stay accommodations segment is growing fast in the country with even OTAs and budget hotel accommodation providers such as MakeMyTrip and Oyo entering into the space.

Another firm, Stayzilla, which begun off by offering travellers stay options in budget hotels has also been largely focusing on home stays now.

According to Deyor, the traditional styles of traveling and staying in hotels have become monotonous and people are preferring alternative accommodations.

These would include tents, cottages, resorts, cabanas, tree houses etc. However, even vanilla alternative accommodations can get monotonous with very little to do at the property.

Deyor Camps, is thus also focusing on activities to keep the customers active during their stay.